Welcome! On behalf of the Network 5 Transplant Subcommittee of the Medical Review Board, I want to welcome you to this new section of the Mid-Atlantic Renal Coalition Website.

The Transplant Subcommittee, a standing Medical Review Board (MRB) subcommittee, is composed of transplant surgeons and nephrologists, transplant coordinators, dialysis nurses, social workers, and transplant recipients from the Network 5 renal community.  The Subcommittee's purpose is to promote transplantation as a treatment modality for all patients who are medically and psychosocially suitable candidates.  The Subcommittee examines transplantation referral statistics in Network 5, advises and makes recommendations to the MRB and Board of Directors on establishing goals for patient referral for transplantation, developing clinical indicators for transplantation, and examines the need for educational materials for both the professional community and dialysis patients.  The committee also monitors the outcomes of transplantation at the active transplant centers in the Network.We hope you will visit this site often.  The site will focus on the current Transplantation Goals and Objectives and on Subcommittee projects and activities.  It will provide links to the 13 Transplant Centers in our Network; display Network, regional and national transplant summary statistics; and give you a way to contact the Subcommittee through the Network 5 office.